In this video on VuMedi, my husband, Andreas Gomoll, joined me in talking about CARTIHEAL. CARTIHEAL AGILI-C gives me a slightly lower threshold to treat certain defects, ones for which I didn’t have a great answer in the past. This includes:
- A more narrow central trochlear, especially when there was significant bone edema
- Smaller lesions on the condyles that were very symptomatic
- Multi-lesion defects in a patient with some early arthritis that isn’t advanced enough to consider arthroplasty
These defects are really well treated with CARTIHEAL. My patients are also most satisfied in these areas because they didn’t have any other surgical option in the past. This allows us to expand to treat a new patient population.
To learn more about the process, watch the video “One Step Cartilage Repair: Multi-Compartment Pathology with Osteoarthritis. ”
The image is a still from the video.